The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXII

[Ajidica]

Invite your friends to come here. I think CFC would have a field day.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Tell them to think of coal and nuclear power plants like this:
Nuclear plants are like pipe bombs sent through the mail, while coal plants are cigarettes.

Pipe bombs sent through the mail are terrible things that can destroy a lot of people at once and frak up a room or a house. They get lots of attention when they happen and are all over the news. They are also exceedingly rare, just like nuclear power station meltdowns - of which there have been maybe a dozen or so and few of those happened in the 1st world.

Cigarettes, on the other hand, silently kills millions every year. We all know it's happening, we all know it's bad for your health, but it's so common that it isn't generally news worthy. Coal plants, just like cigarettes, pump out lots of pollution and toxins into the environment and directly or indirectly kill millions of people every year and constantly damage the environment. But again, that doesn't generally make the news the way a pipe bomb would. This phenomenon heavily scews the percieved danger in favor of the coal plants when in fact they are a few orders of magnitude more dangerous.

And I'm sure there have been many, many deadly coal power station explosions.

The analogy fails of course when you consider a pipe bomb is made to kill, maim and destroy while billions are spent on each and every nuclear power station to make sure they are as safe as humanly possible.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Invite your friends to come here. I think CFC would have a field day.

That would only get me into trouble.

Tell them to think of coal and nuclear power plants like this:
Nuclear plants are like pipe bombs sent through the mail, while coal plants are cigarettes.

Pipe bombs sent through the mail are terrible things that can destroy a lot of people at once and frak up a room or a house. They get lots of attention when they happen and are all over the news. They are also exceedingly rare, just like nuclear power station meltdowns - of which there have been maybe a dozen or so and few of those happened in the 1st world.

Cigarettes, on the other hand, silently kills millions every year. We all know it's happening, we all know it's bad for your health, but it's so common that it isn't generally news worthy. Coal plants, just like cigarettes, pump out lots of pollution and toxins into the environment and directly or indirectly kill millions of people every year and constantly damage the environment. But again, that doesn't generally make the news the way a pipe bomb would. This phenomenon heavily scews the percieved danger in favor of the coal plants when in fact they are a few orders of magnitude more dangerous.

And I'm sure there have been many, many deadly coal power station explosions.

The analogy fails of course when you consider a pipe bomb is made to kill, maim and destroy while billions are spent on each and every nuclear power station to make sure they are as safe as humanly possible.

I don't think that will work.

I even tried to tell them that nuclear power stations have fail safes that make it impossible to explode, or that the amount of waste produced by a nuclear power station in a year is small, I think a metre square, but they just dismiss it because of radiation.

 

[Borachio]

I find it difficult to comprehend your friends, Chukchi.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

They are perfectly dense, it seems, to the point of impossibility. There is nothing anyone can say that will change a single one of their warped world views, ever. I call shennanigans.

 

[LegionSteve]

They are perfectly dense, it seems, to the point of impossibility. There is nothing anyone can say that will change a single one of their warped world views, ever. I call shennanigans.

Yes. The idea that someone could think smog is a good thing, is just absurd.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

They are perfectly dense, it seems, to the point of impossibility. There is nothing anyone can say that will change a single one of their warped world views, ever. I call shennanigans.

One of them actually said they were open minded.

 

[Borachio]

He lied. I'm almost certain of it.

 

[Farm Boy]

What type of food could be at the same time considered American and German?
Hamburger and everything barbecue related to be excluded, it's too cold for that.
EDIT: Needs to be a main meal.

If this isn't too late I second the opinion of potato salad, I would add coffee cake and sauerkraut(other Americans eat that, right?), you could get fancy and go beef pate if that's actually a German thing, I think it might be. If that's a bit much you can do really amazing things with a burger and buffalo sauce. Burgers can be classy, it just takes significantly more work than firing up a grill and grabbing cheese/ketchup. Maybe a buffalo sauce/pepperjack cheese/fresh veggies, or you could go supermidwest and make it a steakburger so you can do it in ways other than well done.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Brats, potato salad and sauerkraut are excellent choices, I agree with those that suggested it. The_J, do you work with Americans or something?

 

[shadowplay]

Brats, potato salad and sauerkraut are excellent choices, I agree with those that suggested it.

Great minds think alike.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Thanks! Are those things popular in Canada as well?

 

[shadowplay]

Yeah, though it's mostly summer food.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Oh man, it must suck only being able to have brats 2 weeks a year!

 

[Carras Dad]

Link to video.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

Who here knows me on this forum ?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The frak

 

[Borachio]

I do.

Why do you ask?

But wait just a minute. Do you mean "know" in the Biblical sense? In which case, no. Definitely not. I'm not like that. And I didn't think you were either.

 

[The_J]

If this isn't too late I second the opinion of potato salad, I would add coffee cake and sauerkraut(other Americans eat that, right?), you could get fancy and go beef pate if that's actually a German thing, I think it might be. If that's a bit much you can do really amazing things with a burger and buffalo sauce. Burgers can be classy, it just takes significantly more work than firing up a grill and grabbing cheese/ketchup. Maybe a buffalo sauce/pepperjack cheese/fresh veggies, or you could go supermidwest and make it a steakburger so you can do it in ways other than well done.

I'll happily take more suggestions .

Like said, too cold for barbecue, else I'd totally consider it.
Also easier to do, for a bigger number of people.

Beef pate...uh...that might again be too complicated, because we're very limited with oven capacities :/.
Else...not sure if it's very German, but I'd totally eat it.

Brats, potato salad and sauerkraut are excellent choices, I agree with those that suggested it.

Well...then maybe...

The_J, do you work with Americans or something?

Not really.
International student floor, and once a week we have a dinner. Since we're too many for one cook, we do it pairwise. Problem is that we're very mixed, and it's now the first time that we're trying something combined international (which is totally different; had on Sunday a Mexican/Spanish dinner), so not sure how that will work out.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Who here knows me on this forum ?

I don't know ELITEOFWARMAN8, only Cashews and Milk.